Viking has acquired the right to release Herbie Hancock’s memoirs in a book deal that will see the book released in the fall of 2014.
“We are proud to have as distinguished and articulate a musician as Herbie Hancock join Viking’s music list, ” said Clare Ferraro, president of Viking. “There are few artists in any genre who have had a career as rich and influential as Mr. Hancock’s, and his memoir promises to be not only the record of a remarkable life and career but a singular chronicle of one of the most fertile periods in the development of jazz.”